W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless has undergone a profitable surgical procedure to deal with two herniated discs and a damaged vertebra.

On Thursday (August 10),Lawless launched the next assertion by way of social media: “I simply acquired out my again surgical procedure earlier in the present day and all is sweet, the surgical procedure was an enormous success! The Dr. mentioned he was more than happy and the outcomes had been nice. Now to get some relaxation. Thanks to everybody for all of the assist.”

Due to the in depth again accidents Blackie suffered in the course of the European leg of W.A.S.P.‘s Fortieth-anniversary tour, the band’s beforehand introduced 2023 U.S. tour was canceled and will probably be rescheduled for spring 2024. Tickets and VIP packages will be refunded on the level of buy.

When the U.S. tour cancelation was introduced final month, Lawless mentioned in a press release: “The extent of the trauma I endured on the 2023 European tour was far higher than initially identified and surgical procedure will now be wanted to right the issue. Along with the unique herniated disc, as that tour continued, a second disc grew to become herniated. Upon returning house, a second MRI additionally revealed a damaged vertebrae to my decrease again.

“I have been lucky to work with the very best specialists within the U.S. and I have been in intensive rehab since we acquired house. It is going effectively however the injury was fairly in depth and all of the medical doctors agree shifting the tour a couple of months again would be the most secure factor. It is all been as the results of an damage that occurred a number of years in the past. I am working my butt off to prepare and I will be up using on [my mic stand nicknamed] Elvis… larger and badder than ever. If the Torture By no means Stops, then the Fortieth By no means Stops!”

Throughout a Could 25 look on SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Lawless spoke about finishing W.A.S.P.‘s latest European tour whereas seated after struggling a herniated disc in his again. He mentioned: “This previous Monday was my 10-year anniversary from once I broke my proper femur. And it is a lengthy, difficult story, however what’s been occurring with my again is a direct reflection of what occurred with that femur being damaged. As a result of I wore a raise for 9 years, and are available to seek out out I didn’t want that raise. And that was solely decided final summer season, so the raise was taken out. However the backbone had adjusted to me strolling with that raise. And after we took it out, then that is when the issues began. And it really began initially of the U.S. tour. And I used to be capable of get by the U.S. tour okay, and we thought it had settled into place, however after we acquired to Europe, we rapidly found, about two weeks into the tour, that was not the case. And what was taking place is that the vertebrae had been compressing among the disks. I ended up rupturing a disk, after which that begins leaking out a gelatin that then wraps itself across the nerves popping out of the spinal wire. And that then creates this factor referred to as nerve ache. And I do not know if individuals perceive what that’s, as a result of I had heard of it however I had by no means skilled it earlier than. And it’s ache that you simply can’t think about. It’s not like something you’ve got ever skilled earlier than.”

The 66-year-old guitarist/vocalist, whose actual title is Steven Duren, continued: “I needed to go to Berlin 4 occasions to get therapy. I acquired eight epidurals all through the tour. That was the one approach I used to be getting by it, as a result of the ache is actually off the charts. And the medical doctors there informed me, they mentioned, ‘This factor can turn into so intense, individuals commit suicide from it.’ And I can see why individuals would try this.

“The primary time I needed to go in, you must go right into a surgical middle as a result of it isn’t one thing that may be accomplished in an everyday physician’s workplace. So we had been in a hospital in Berlin. So that they take me into the surgical room, or the working room. And he informed me, he mentioned, ‘Now I am gonna inject this needle or insert this needle into you and I am gonna contact your spinal wire with it.’ He mentioned, ‘I would like you to prepare for this.’ Now, I did not know what that meant — till he did it. And when he did it — I actually haven’t got correct phrases to explain what that seems like. The closest approach I can clarify it’s it felt like an explosion, like a bomb went off inside my legs. And he mentioned, ‘I am gonna have to do that another time.’ And I swear to you, I grabbed the desk with each fingers.

“You see these films about mafia and issues like that, the place they’re pulling guys’ fingernails off with pliers. You do not want that,” Lawless added. “You simply present anyone a needle — they will hand over their youngsters. I am right here to let you know — there’s nothing prefer it. I imply, you can not fathom it except you’ve got been by it.

“So, anyway, they had been capable of hold me operating, however they had been afraid that I used to be gonna do additional injury. So the deal was midway in the course of the tour that I’d pull again about 50 p.c of the motion that I used to be doing. However it began getting worse and worse. And we acquired to Zurich about two and a half weeks in the past, and one thing occurred in the course of the present, and I knew one thing wasn’t proper. And that is after we went to sitting after that.

“We acquired house this previous Saturday, and I went straight to the physician’s workplace. And so they checked out me, and we mentioned, ‘Okay, let’s do new footage.’ So we did new footage this previous Monday.

“I’ve a factor, they usually decided this in Berlin — it is referred to as mechanical compression,” Blackie revealed. “And what which means is you get vertebrae that begin pushing in opposition to one another, however they grind in opposition to one another on the identical time as a result of they begin to cramp. Properly, after we had been doing the present in Zurich, it was cramping actually unhealthy and I could not get it to cease. And I used to be actually, actually hanging on to [my mic stand] Elvis whereas I used to be making an attempt to sing and play on the identical time.

“So we did the brand new footage on Monday, and I’ve a cracked vertebra now in my backbone. However as unhealthy as that sounds, it isn’t the primary time it occurred,” Lawless mentioned. “It occurred the primary time in ’92 on ‘The Crimson Idol’ tour. I acquired a little bit too near the sting of the stage one night time and among the followers pulled me off the stage into the viewers, and I ended up the wrong way up within the crowd they usually fell on prime of me, and I broke a vertebra then. So that is the second time I have been by this. So it’s going to heal by itself. I begin remedy tomorrow — it is a swimming pool factor that I am gonna must do to start out first. However they are saying they’re gonna have me in control in eight weeks to start out the tour. So I will be able to go.”

W.A.S.P.‘s large European leg of the Fortieth-anniversary world tour wrapped on Could 18 in Sofia, Bulgaria at Universidada Sports activities Corridor.

Produced by Reside Nation, the North American leg of W.A.S.P.‘s “The Fortieth By no means Stops World Tour 2023” was scheduled to kick off on August 4 on the Fremont Theatre in San Luis Obispo, California, making stops throughout North America in Vancouver, British Columbia; Omaha, Nebraska; New York Metropolis; Memphis, Tennessee and extra earlier than wrapping up on September 16 on the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, California. Particular visitor ARMORED SAINT was supposed be part of the band throughout all 33 dates of the tour.

W.A.S.P. wrapped up its first U.S. tour in 10 years with a sold-out present on December 11, 2022 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. This marked the 18th sold-out reveals for the U.S. tour, which kicked off in late October 2022. W.A.S.P.‘s performances included the return of the band’s basic tune “Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)”, which hadn’t been performed stay in over 15 years.

Lawless has led W.A.S.P. as its lead vocalist and first songwriter since its starting. His distinctive model of visible, social and political remark took the group to worldwide heights and bought thousands and thousands of data alongside a legacy of sold-out reveals throughout the globe for 4 a long time. He’s joined by bassist Mike Duda and guitarist Doug Blair, whose tenures within the band span 28 and 17 years respectively, together with drummer extraordinaire Aquiles Priester.

W.A.S.P.‘s newest launch was “ReIdolized (The Soundtrack To The Crimson Idol)”, which got here out in February 2018. It was a brand new model of the band’s basic 1992 album “The Crimson Idol”, which was re-recorded to accompany the film of the identical title to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the unique LP’s launch. The re-recorded model additionally options 4 songs lacking from the unique album.

W.A.S.P.‘s most up-to-date studio album of all-new authentic materials was 2015’s “Golgotha”.

W.A.S.P.‘s first stay efficiency since December 2019 came about on July 23, 2022 at Skansen in Stockholm, Sweden.